Random Music Talk CXXVII: Crickets - Page 32

Axver · 06-30-2020, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by cobl04

The reason I actually finally listened to it (I've owned it for years) is because Em & I had some challenging conversations about our relationship over the weekend, and I remember LM once recommending it to me, when I was asking for albums that speak to challenges in relationships. It didn't really hit the spot I needed it to, so if anyone has recommendations for that, let me know. But it was great.

Dunno if it will help you like it helps me right now, but Long Beard's album from last year, Means to Me, is getting me through strange times. Hazy, almost folky dream pop, it has the right emotional resonance for me at the moment and singing/lyrics that are abstract yet provide something to latch onto. Could leave you totally cold but I thought I'd mention it.

iron yuppie · 06-30-2020, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by cobl04

not sure where the original post is iYup, but that playlist you posted led me to Yasuaki Shimizu's Music for Commercials, which I'm greatly enjoying!

Cool. Japanese music has a huge amount to dig into. I wasn't aware of the sheer scope until these Light in the Attic compilations started showing up.

gump · 06-30-2020, 11:35 AM

As we are at the halfway point in this terrible year, what have been your favorite albums so far?

In no particular order:

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Waxahatchee - St. Cloud
Perfume Genius - Set my Heart on Fire Immediately
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Caribou - Suddenly
Bob Dylan - Rough an Rowdy Ways
TORRES - Silver Tongue
Moses Sumney - grae

cobl04 · 06-30-2020, 07:34 PM

I suspect most of those will make my list, but I've yet to listen to them.

Destroyer - Have We Met
The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Continue Sinning So That Grace May Increase
Moodymann - Taken Away
Against All Logic - 2017-2019
A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around

Axver · 06-30-2020, 07:45 PM

Mine so far, alphabetical order:

Cable Ties - Far Enough
Ellis - Pringle Creek
Hum - Inlet
Mint Julep - Stray Fantasies
Myrkur - Folkesange
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
Purity Ring - Womb
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Solkyri - Mount Pleasant

My favourite release, full stop, is Sleepmakeswaves - No Safe Place EP. The best thing they've ever made. They're releasing three EPs this year, which will also function together as an album.

I feel like I should draw mikal's attention to Hum. Not sure if you've listened to them? I think you might like them, they were an amazing nineties alt-rock band that sounded quite unlike their contemporaries. I love their guitar tones, thick and shoegazy but with a meatiness that's almost metal. Downward Is Heavenward is their finest album... and suddenly they've dropped this new one 22 years later that picks up exactly where they left off. It sounds like they recorded it in 2000, not 2020, in the best possible way.

iron yuppie · 06-30-2020, 07:46 PM

Three standing out to me:

1. Nicolas Jaar: Cenizas
2. Perfume Genius: Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
3. Hayley Williams: Petals for Armor

U2inUtah · 06-30-2020, 08:13 PM

Caribou
Charli XCX
Destroyer
Fiona Apple
Hayley Williams
Grimes
Run The Jewels 4
Tame Impala

and maybe HAIM...too early to tell but liking what I've heard so far

great year so far for music

cobl04 · 06-30-2020, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by iron yuppie

1. Nicolas Jaar: Cenizas

Crazy how vastly I prefer his work as AAL and Darkside to his solo stuff.

gump · 06-30-2020, 08:21 PM

I had forgotten that the new Destroyer is a 2020 album (it’s an old world, pre-pandemic album after all). Add that to my list.

iron yuppie · 06-30-2020, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by cobl04

Crazy how vastly I prefer his work as AAL and Darkside to his solo stuff.

Cenizas really spoke to me. Love that fractured sax running through a lot of the tracks with the minimal, low-fi beats. Very apocalyptic but somehow also comforting, to my ear at least. Easily the best album of the year so far.

mikal · 06-30-2020, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Axver

Mine so far, alphabetical order:

Cable Ties - Far Enough
Ellis - Pringle Creek
Hum - Inlet
Mint Julep - Stray Fantasies
Myrkur - Folkesange
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
Purity Ring - Womb
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Solkyri - Mount Pleasant

My favourite release, full stop, is Sleepmakeswaves - No Safe Place EP. The best thing they've ever made. They're releasing three EPs this year, which will also function together as an album.

I feel like I should draw mikal's attention to Hum. Not sure if you've listened to them? I think you might like them, they were an amazing nineties alt-rock band that sounded quite unlike their contemporaries. I love their guitar tones, thick and shoegazy but with a meatiness that's almost metal. Downward Is Heavenward is their finest album... and suddenly they've dropped this new one 22 years later that picks up exactly where they left off. It sounds like they recorded it in 2000, not 2020, in the best possible way.

Crazy you say that. I just listened to the Hum album last night. Really good. I actually saw them live in ‘98 opening for Smashing Pumpkins of all bands. 😂

Axver · 06-30-2020, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mikal

I actually saw them live in ‘98 opening for Smashing Pumpkins of all bands. 😂

Fuuuuuck jealous.

I'm hoping that post-covid Hum might make their way down here, one of those bands I just could not imagine having the opportunity to see live. Downward Is Heavenward is an album that has reliably remained in rotation for me for... so long. I probably first heard it around 2005 or 2006 and it sticks with me so well. Funnily enough, though, I've never got into You'd Prefer an Astronaut, I feel like there's something intangible missing - perhaps if I had the musical vocabulary of someone like LM or iYup I'd be able to articulate it.

cobl04 · 06-30-2020, 09:56 PM

I'd love Bob Seger to finally fucking come here.

LemonMelon · 06-30-2020, 10:52 PM

This has been my favorite year for new music since 2016 and it's only half over. Here are the albums I would say are really special:

Joey788 · 07-01-2020, 08:14 AM

It's been a really strong year so far. I have about 20 albums I'm really enjoying and listening to repeatedly.

Here are my top 10 in alphabetical order:

Eve Owen - Don't Let The Ink Dry
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Soccer Mommy - color theory
Torres - Silver Tongue
Ultraista - Sister
Waxahatchee - St. Cloud

gump · 07-01-2020, 09:29 AM

LM, I really like that Tennis album too. They've been such a consistent band (and consistently overlooked, I'd say).

iron yuppie · 07-01-2020, 10:02 AM

Every Tennis album has a few songs I really like, but I don't think they have put together something that really works from front to back yet.

lazarus · 07-01-2020, 10:26 AM

The lack of mentions for Carly Rae Jepsen's latest pop masterpiece is unfortunate.

Jerry Dunk · 07-01-2020, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by lazarus

The lack of mentions for Carly Rae Jepsen's latest pop masterpiece is unfortunate.

Have you seen her live? I went to her concert a year or two back and it was an absolute blast.

LemonMelon · 07-01-2020, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by iron yuppie

Every Tennis album has a few songs I really like, but I don't think they have put together something that really works from front to back yet.

I felt the same way until this one. A perfectly consistent and charming album.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Dunk

Have you seen her live? I went to her concert a year or two back and it was an absolute blast.

Can confirm. She's an absolute pro and obviously the setlist is superb.

06-30-2020, 07:45 PM	#625
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 11:49 AM	Mine so far, alphabetical order: Cable Ties - Far Enough Ellis - Pringle Creek Hum - Inlet Mint Julep - Stray Fantasies Myrkur - Folkesange Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea Purity Ring - Womb Soccer Mommy - Color Theory Solkyri - Mount Pleasant My favourite release, full stop, is Sleepmakeswaves - No Safe Place EP. The best thing they've ever made. They're releasing three EPs this year, which will also function together as an album. I feel like I should draw mikal's attention to Hum. Not sure if you've listened to them? I think you might like them, they were an amazing nineties alt-rock band that sounded quite unlike their contemporaries. I love their guitar tones, thick and shoegazy but with a meatiness that's almost metal. Downward Is Heavenward is their finest album... and suddenly they've dropped this new one 22 years later that picks up exactly where they left off. It sounds like they recorded it in 2000, not 2020, in the best possible way. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

06-30-2020, 08:21 PM	#629
gump ONE love, blood, life Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,044 Local Time: 09:49 PM	Random Music Talk CXXVII: Crickets I had forgotten that the new Destroyer is a 2020 album (it’s an old world, pre-pandemic album after all). Add that to my list.

06-30-2020, 10:52 PM	#634
LemonMelon More 5G Than Man Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Hollywoo Posts: 68,642 Local Time: 06:49 PM	This has been my favorite year for new music since 2016 and it's only half over. Here are the albums I would say are really special: Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? Natalia Lafourcade - Un canto por México Vol. 1 A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind Rina Sawayama - Sawayama Tennis - Swimmer R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages The Strokes - The New Abnormal Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM Destroyer - Have We Met Run the Jewels - RTJ4 Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar The Necks - Three Makaya McCraven / Gil Scott-Heron - We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven Mac Miller - Circles Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter Pejzaż - Blues The Mountain Goats - Songs for Pierre Chuvin RAY - Pink Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here by History tricot - 真っ黒 (Makkuro) Against All Logic - 2017-2019 Bambara - Stray Ian William Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke Ka - Descendants of Cain

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06-30-2020, 11:35 AM	#623
gump ONE love, blood, life Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,044 Local Time: 09:49 PM	As we are at the halfway point in this terrible year, what have been your favorite albums so far? In no particular order: Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Waxahatchee - St. Cloud Perfume Genius - Set my Heart on Fire Immediately Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Caribou - Suddenly Bob Dylan - Rough an Rowdy Ways TORRES - Silver Tongue Moses Sumney - grae

06-30-2020, 07:34 PM	#624
cobl04 45:33 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: East Point to Shaolin Posts: 58,491 Local Time: 11:49 AM	I suspect most of those will make my list, but I've yet to listen to them. Destroyer - Have We Met The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Continue Sinning So That Grace May Increase Moodymann - Taken Away Against All Logic - 2017-2019 A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around

06-30-2020, 07:46 PM	#626
iron yuppie ONE love, blood, life Join Date: May 2009 Location: Chicago Posts: 10,715 Local Time: 08:49 PM	Three standing out to me: 1. Nicolas Jaar: Cenizas 2. Perfume Genius: Set My Heart on Fire Immediately 3. Hayley Williams: Petals for Armor

06-30-2020, 08:13 PM	#627
U2inUtah Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Utah Posts: 3,342 Local Time: 07:49 PM	Caribou Charli XCX Destroyer Fiona Apple Hayley Williams Grimes Run The Jewels 4 Tame Impala and maybe HAIM...too early to tell but liking what I've heard so far great year so far for music

06-30-2020, 09:56 PM	#633
cobl04 45:33 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: East Point to Shaolin Posts: 58,491 Local Time: 11:49 AM	I'd love Bob Seger to finally fucking come here.

07-01-2020, 08:14 AM	#635
Joey788 Refugee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 2,219 Local Time: 09:49 PM	It's been a really strong year so far. I have about 20 albums I'm really enjoying and listening to repeatedly. Here are my top 10 in alphabetical order: Eve Owen - Don't Let The Ink Dry Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Grimes - Miss Anthropocene Hayley Williams - Petals for Armor Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher Porridge Radio - Every Bad Soccer Mommy - color theory Torres - Silver Tongue Ultraista - Sister Waxahatchee - St. Cloud

07-01-2020, 09:29 AM	#636
gump ONE love, blood, life Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 10,044 Local Time: 09:49 PM	LM, I really like that Tennis album too. They've been such a consistent band (and consistently overlooked, I'd say).

07-01-2020, 10:02 AM	#637
iron yuppie ONE love, blood, life Join Date: May 2009 Location: Chicago Posts: 10,715 Local Time: 08:49 PM	Every Tennis album has a few songs I really like, but I don't think they have put together something that really works from front to back yet.

07-01-2020, 10:26 AM	#638
lazarus Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 41,665 Local Time: 06:49 PM	The lack of mentions for Carly Rae Jepsen's latest pop masterpiece is unfortunate.